freelance

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A person who sells services to employers without a long-term commitment to any of them.

n. An uncommitted independent, as in politics or social life.

n. A medieval mercenary.

intransitive v. To work as a freelance: a journalist who freelances.

transitive v. To produce and sell as a freelance: freelanced the article to a magazine publisher.

adj. Of, relating to, or working as a freelance.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Someone who sells his services to employers without a long-term contract

n. A medieval mercenary

adj. Of, or relating to a freelance; without contract

v. To work as a freelance

v. To produce or sell services as a freelance

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. of or pertaining to a freelance{2}.

n. a person who acts independently or without authorization of an organization or of his superiors.

n. a person who pursues a profession independently, and not as the employee of an organization; -- used especially of writers or photographers who sell their work to organizations of which they are not employees.

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Over on free-lance the CD&C says: "A mercenary soldier during the middle ages, especially one of some rank, mounted and thoroughly armed and having followers or attendants. (Compare lance.) They were most conspicuous in Italy, where they were called condottieri. Also called free companion."